In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America General ; Fiction When Miko and her sister

When Miko and her sister

With multiple tentacles stretching into the cable news echo chamber

Emmanuel Acho connects his own experience with race and racism―from attending majority-white prep schools to his time in the NFL playing on majority-black football teams―to insightful lessons in black history and black culture

Each of the pieces in this remarkable collection demonstrates an uplifting sense of sisterhood

In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America General ; Fiction When Miko and her sisterIn this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nations rising young African American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past. Central to Glaudes mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied